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irE cond frat Roiebud land
I Wtterr that throwing open to
I I ttlmnt about 800,000 acrea of
kota, baa come and gone, but la
not finished. There are still
hearts to be won In the wake of the gi
gantlo land drawing;. ,
For men were not alone In the land win
ning. The hand of fate reached down Into
the mountain of onvelopef almoit 115,000
of them and decreed that women young;
women should be among; the settlers on
that vast expanse of unbroken prairie now
for the- first time to be plowed up by
civilisation.
Tripp county, home of the Rosebud Bloux
for many years and hiding place of many
and many a vicious renegade whose capture
would have meant the noose, has been re
linquished by the redmn who have owned
It.. When little Demi Rose, 4-year-old
daughter of Mayor C. M. Rose of Dallas,
reached down Into the heap of lottery en
velopes and drew forth the. application of
May L. Melser of Kennebec, S. D.. a .new
era dawned upon that V.OOO.COO-acre tract of
land a new step was made Into the
hitherto virgin frontier by the ever en
croaching Caucaslon race, marching always
and always further toward the setting sun.
Today Tripp county stretched out to the
west of Dallas for 100 miles and more a
sea of waving grass In spots and a llmlt-
less expanse of black, charred ground In
other parts, the remains of the prairie
fire which came no nearly wiping out Dal
las during the land rush.
Pour years from now Tripp county will
resemble an old settled region. There, will
be a railroad; there will be towns at In
tervals of twelve miles or so, and every
quarter .section will have upon it a resolute,
determined homesteader. Thus, with the
wave of a hand. 1,000.000 acres of land that
has been trodden orJy by the wild steer
and the cow pony, will become an active,
busy, settled-up community with banks and
'newspapers and churches. ,
Just west of Tripp county lies Meyer
county, a tract fully aa fertile as Tripp,
and comprising much more land. Into
Meyer county the old-time ranchman, the
last of his tribe, has now been pushed by
this new land opening, and within the next
five years that county, too, according to
Judge Witten, superintendent ot the draw-
Ing .will be opened by another huge lot
tery. Hollow Horn Bear, chief of the Bicmx'
council, like others of the Intelligent reds,
desires the white man's Invasion because
It gives the Rosebud natives opportunity
F.ARS stood In the eye of the
vttA I aurse aa a little blind g rl ap
I I proached first one and then
childish voice pleaded:
"Do you love me today?"
L'u.vn.y Taylor Is one ot the many In
teresting charge tenderly cartd for at the
Child Saving Institute. She yearn Inces
santly and pathetically for the love and
tenoernes of the nurse at that institution,
and frequently runs Impetuously from one
to another of them In her blind, almost
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to take on the ways of civilisation. Hol
low Horn Bear, by the way. Is the only
living man whose picture appears on United
States currency. Fecause of a great speech
made by him before congress twenty years
ago and by "virtue of his magnificent
physique and striking face, he was en
graved on K and 20 bills. With money
bearing his photograph the Rosebud Sioux
Indiana will be paid for the lands that
the government has Just thrown open and
which will be sold to the settlers at $6
per acre. It was Hollow Horn Bear, who,
during the opening, ran out of cash and
borrowed 15 from Judge Witten, Inciden
tally receiving a bill upon which his own
picture was engraved.
It is estimated that $2,000,000 was spent
by the 115,000 people who registered for
chances in the Tripp oounty lottery. , Judge
Witten placed the average amount spent
by the land seekers at 20, which brings
the total sum spent to more than f,000,000.
The postage stamps alone required
to carry the applications to. Judge Witten
cost somewhere In the neighborhood of
12,000.. Three railroads carried landseekers
to registration and affidavit points, . the
Northwestern, the Milwaukee and the Bur
lington. The Northwestern carried the
largest number, 62,000. Estimating' the
profit from each passenger at $1.50, this
railroad made about $90,000 out of the .rush.
And, considering the tremendous amount
of extra help employed, It Is believed not
more 'than that amount of profit would
have been made.
Never, was a land rush so orderly. This
H Judge Witten's statement. There was
no lawlessness at registration points.
There was intoxication, particularly on the
trains. Men lay in the aisles like hogs
and scenes were enacted that could
scarcely be believed of humans scenes
that could not be decently described In
print. And yet despite the drunkenness,
there ' were no accidents of serious type.
There were no railroad collisions even
though It Is but a single track between
Norfolk and Dallas. General Superintend
ent S. M. Braden, Superintendent C. H.
Reynolds and Trainmaster Pangle at Nor
folk handled the Northwestern trains and,
getting scarcely any sleep during the 'two
weeks, kept the long l'ines of extra trains
moving like clockwork.
The nearest approach to accident lay In
the error made at Norfolk by Captain
Yates of Washington, when he was dis
patched from Valentine and O'Neill to
Dallas on the last day with late applica
tions. It was necessary that be reach
Dallas by 4:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
He reached Norfolk, early in the morning
Little Blind Girl Yearns for
hopeless way, to propound with Intense
earnestness the foregoing query, is If her
little life and all Us happiness depended
on the answer of each.
Seldom does Superintendent Clarke go
Into the hallway of the Institute without
encountering this childish inquisition, the
sightless child, apparently by Intuition,
recognising hi kindly presence. -
As far a those In charge of th Child
Saving Institute can remember no otuer
child so Intensely affectionate ha vsr
been received and sheltered there. She
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MISS AGNES RAASCH.
and boarded a 81oux City train. His mis-
take was discovered when he reached Hos-
kins, one station out of Norfolk. He was
driven baok to Norfolk and sent to Dallas,
100 miles north, on a special train, which
flew across the prairies at the rate of a
mile a minute and landed the messenger at
his. goal at 8:04 o'clock, lh time to get all
tne applications into tho big metal lottery
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can on time.
Many landseekers complained because
they were compelled to Journey to desig
nated points some of them several hundred
or more miles to register. They argued
that the land belonged to the government
and that every person In the county should
be given an equal chance at winning a
farm. Judge Witten explained that If this
method were followed there would.be mil
lions of applications and that the proposi
tion would be beyond physical possibilities.
Under the present plan, the man who goes
Is In all likelihood a sincere homeseeker
and that's the sorl of a settler desired.
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such an opening Is to allow persons to
send applications from any point ' in the
Affection
loves everybody and la as eager for knowl
edge on all sorts of subject aa the world-
renowned Helen Keller. It Is the Judgment
of the superintendent and others connected
with the work of this benevolence that no
other little child ever admitted to the
home awakened so much sympathy as does
little Dorothy.
Born In a Nebraska town near Omaha
she was brought by parents into the city
when but a few months old. A long con
tinued Illness resulted In blindness. The
father of the little one yielded to forces of
evil ana the new forms of temptation which
he met In city life. The result was a com
plete moral wreck. He abandoned his wife
and child and nothing has been known of
his whereabouts from that day to the
present exoept a vague report that he died
in a distant city.
Th mother was In poor health. With a
true mother love, she struggled on to
support herself and baby. With the co-operation
of kind friends she was fairly suc
cessful for nearly two year. Gradually
her health failed. She never complained,
but ' struggled on until her strength was
exhausted and she and the baby were taken
to the Douglas county hospital, where she
remained for several . months, until her
death in April, 1904. Her .only comfort
was the little child during her last days,
and the management of the hospital yielded
to bar wishes to have the little me with
her until she died.
Soon after this the child was brought to
the Child Saving institute, and for four
year received loving, tender car from
nurse and caretakers. She was too young
to be admitted to tho Stat Institution) for
th Blind at Nebraska City, and on this
account th heavy financial burden fell
upon th institute In providing home and
comfort and necessities for the little bllr.d
girl.
There she found renewed In a measure
th love and tender car she lost when her
mother was called away, and deserved all
th affection that wa bestowed upon her.
Her manner was always agreeable; her na
ture waa refined and her Ideal of things
better for the future surprised every one
who talked with her. No one at th Insti
tute regret having com Into contact with
this little life and all In charge are glad
for the privilege of doing what ha been
done In her behalf for many month In
succession.
So quietly are these benevolences bestowed
upon the waif ot society that few know
of them, and It will Interest every person
of kindly impulse to know that the de
mands upon the institute have outgrown
Its capacity lamentably, and that step
are now contemplated by those who have
so long maintained this philanthropy to
provide additional room , and facilities,
making the Institution more adequate to
the public Med and enabling It more
nearly to keep pace with th growth of th
city and state.
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BERT MURPHY OF CHICAGO DEPOS ITINO LAST
MISS DELLA HOWARD.
country, but to require them to send a
postal money order for $100, to be forfeited
in case the applicant draw within a cer-
tain number and failed to file. But such a
plan would cut out the railroad and the
land rush town boom.
There were not so many women In this
land rush as there were In the Bones te;l
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rush four years ago, when Gregory county
was opened.
And yet, withal, a number of
Quaint Features of Life
Hears Funeral by 'Phone.
EDRIDDJJN for year with pa
ralysis, Mia. James ' Mitchell
Rlnard of Pittsburg, wife of
one of Andrew Carnegie's Junior
partners, and I worth millions,
heard by telephone the funeral
euiogy over tne remains of her husband,
Rlnard, known to the steel manufacturers
as probably tho most expert steel blower
In tho country, had been killed by a flying
bar of steel In the yards of the Edgar
Thomson works at Bmddock.
HIs wife, to whom he had paid unceasing
devotion since slio became an Invalid,
fifteen years ago. Is now believed to be
dying as a result of the crushing news
of her husband's death. Three years ago
Mrs. Rlnard lost the power of speech.
For a year she has been almost sightless.
Only through her eyelids has u method of
communication with her been maintained
by the members of her family. They would
say over the letters of the alphabet and
she would signify the letter to be used
by closing her eyelids.
Unlike other men who have made mil
lions in steel. Rlnard spent every spare
moment beside his wife. And so when her
grieving children told the mother of the
death of their father, they feared 'they
had given her a death blow. But Mrs.
Rlnard. silent, inert, spelled "It is God's
will" with her eyelids, and then lay for
hours with closed eyes.
Mrs. Rlnard was placed In communica
tion with the church through a device sup
plied by the telephone company, and heard
the eulogy pronounced by Rev. Joseph F.
Clokey.
Ulrcniuventiuu Uuoi Laws.
Bud . Ledbetter, of Muskogee, Okl., who
wa either a city marshal or a deputy
marshal all his life snd now at the head
of the police department in Muskogee, ha
found a new wrinkle in the bootlegging
business, and Bud has been catching boot
leggers, studying, classifying and catalogu
ing them for twenty years.
The new one Is the refrigerator trunk.
Rnd had suspected liquor was sold In a
building, but could net get the evidence.
He finaly decided to search the rooms, and
In one of them he found two trunks. Just
plain ordinary trunks. They were not even
locked and when the lid were raised there
was nothing vis.bie but fresh linen care
fully packed.
A bootlegger once said that Bud Led
better could smell a but'le of boose locked
up in a freight car running by him at the
rate of twenty miles an hour. Bud backed
off from the trunks and took a long look
at them. Then he went to one and after
some difficulty removed the tray packed
with linen, and. behold the bottom part of
the trunk was a refrigerator packed with
ice and cold buttles. The bottom part of
the trunk hud been lined with metal and.
made water tight. This enabled the owner
to keep a large supply of cold bottles on
hand all the time. The other trunk proved
tq be storage and was packed full of bot
tles to replenish th refrigerator as fast
a the cold ones disappered.
Long Walk tor Hn.baad.
Into the care of the police matron at
Seattle. Wash., a few night ago volun
tarily rarau Mrs. Anne Johnson, carrying
thirty-five pounds of baggage. She had
walked 1.100 miles, the distance between St.
Paul and Butte, confident, she say, that
she will yet find her husband. Ole Johnson,
who she believe la sick and friendless.
Sh is In th best of health. The story
of Mr. Johnson' walk of 1,100 miles bring
to idght privation and hardship suffered
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MISS CHARLOTTE ILLGEN.
women drew claims in this Tripp lottery,
The wheel of fortune seemed to mix up the
envelopes fn such a wuy as to Insure a
few young women, at leant, out on those
plains. And young women there will be.
The Rosebud girls who drew Tripp county
claims are .already buying poultry books
and works on tho caretaklng of live stock.
Between now and next March these dainty
maidens must learn to milk the cow, churn
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by the woman which are almost unbe-
llevable.
For days Mrs. Johnson was compelled to
make her war alone the tracks of the
Northern Pacific railroad, living upon the
scantiest fare.
"Hv husband. Ole. rim west about
seven months ago." said Mrs. Johnson
For several months I received postal cards
from him, saying he was working on the
docks. Ole can't read and I can't read.
but our friends wrote the cards and read
our answers. Last May I received my last
nostal from Ole. No word came from him
and I was worried. Ole Is 52 years old and
I am the same1 age. So, after not hearing
from Ole for nearly a month, I decided to
go west and hunt for him." '
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Reception Tendered Mr. and Mrs.
F a record Is ever made of
those who have labored In the
byways and the dark places
of Omaha, the name ot Mr.
and Mr. G. W. Clark will be
written near the top of the
pac. 'or twenty-five year they hav
worked unceasingly, and on Monday even
ing their friends, who are numbered by the
hundreds among the rich and the poor,
the most prominent and the most obscure
of the city will be privileged to pay tribute
to them and their work in the celebration
of their golden wedding anniversary. Th
women's societies of First Baptist church,
of which they have been members for
many years, have announced a reception In
their honor Monday evening to be held In
the church parlors. Park avenue and Jack
son street, and tho Invitation has been x?
tended to "all their friends."
Mr. and Mrs. Clark cams to Omaha, a
little over iwenty-Uve year ago from
Cleveland, O., having com to that city
from Syracuse, N. Y., where they were
married fifty years ago, and wh.r they
had both lived. Immediately upon their
arrival in Omaha, they beganhelr publlo
work. Tho old Buckingham theater on
Twelfth street near Dodge had been one
of the most attractive of Omaha's demoral
ising resorts, and those interested In the
moral welfare of the city conceived th
Idea of converting It Into a place of help
fulness. Mr. and Mrs. Clark were put In
charge and , a reading room and lunch
room were opened aa soon aa the building
could be gotten possession of. The enter
prise proved a success, and later, realising
the need of rescue work In the city Mr.
and Mrs. Clark opened "The Open Door,"
a refuge for unfortunate girl and women,
at Twenty-seventh street and Capitol
avenue. Later they moved to North
Omaha where they continued their work
for several years until Mrs. Clark's falling
health necessitated their giving K over to
others ,
Mrs. Clark was a charter member of th
Omaha Wumun's club and ha been an
active worker in the Woman' Christian
association and operating the Old People's
Home of which site is still vice president,
the Woman' Christian Temperance union
and other philanthropic and church so
cieties. Ail these oi jai txalloa will bu rep
resented at the reception Monday evening,
which will be the first opportunity th
member have had of seeing Mrs. Clark
for many months, as she ha been con
fined to ber home by illnes for more than
a year. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have two
JUDGE WITTEN. WITH DUJTA
butter, dress a chicken, feed the horse and
keep cholera away from the pig pen. So
much the better, too. If they can learn to
twine the lines around their necki and dip
a plow's steel blade down Into the hard
sod. These prim young women some of
them school teachers, some of them nurses.
some dry gocds store sales people, some
stenographers will have to have for them-
selves bullded sod shanties and within they
will be compelled to man big six-shooters
with which to keep away the coyotes. They
won't be bothered much by tntrudJng men,
for the fresh osone of the prairies In South
Dakota seems to Inspire a'l mankind with
the best that Is In It and perhsps nowhere
In all the world Is there more genuine
chivalry underneath the rough surface. It
was a women who drew the first claim
and a score drew . within th first 800
names. Three young women In Norfolk,
Neb., drew farms, and all of thpm will
settle In the Rosebud. Incidentally, more
people In Norfolk drew farms, proportion
ately, than from any other city. Fifty-six
Norfolkltes wore claim winners.
After the opening of the land the new
residents will find themselves in strange
communities. Apembled from all parts of
the country Indiscriminately. Just as uncer
tain chance has decreed, the settlers will
be unknown to each other and of various
walks of life. There will be newspaper
men, Actors, gamblers, lawyers, physicians
and then the young womern, besides. They
wlli forget their former trades and pro-
fessions, for the tmt part, and become
thoroughgoing Dakota farmers, within a
remarkably short time.
And scattered throughout the region
there will be .neighbors of red complexion,
for the Indians have taken up allotments
all throtigh Tripp county. Among trie in-
dians who may live on the next quarter to
Miss Rosobudder are Lucy A. Sore Eye,
Amela Fast Dog, Alice Red Blanket, White
Cow Widow, Franklin Never Miss A Shot
and his brother, Roger Never Miss A Shot.
Or one may live next to Runs Over Enemy
Sorrel Horse, Mathew Nlsy Creek, Under
the Water, Goes to War Often, Stiff Arm,
Always Kills Two. Getting Around. Philip
Eating Walklrg. Chasing in Timber, Beat
Them, Whirlwind Soldier, Red Kills Alive,
Red Finger Nail, Paul White Turtle,
Charles Stnnds By Him, George Brave Buf-
falo. Pretty White Hawk, Emrai Bear
Locks Back, Rattling Tracks. Fool Elk,
Susie Two Teeth, Alice Ghost Face,
Thomas Blue Thunder, Arthur Lone B.ar
and The Buizard.
At Dallas during the rush were news
paper men and magaxlne men from all
over the country. They came from New
York, Chicago and all the other large
cities. Many of them sought lawlessness
that did not materialise. And some of them
found "local color" that they weren't look-
Ing 'or. One New, York magaiine man
gt Into a game of stud poker the night
he struck Dallas and was "cleaned" for
$100.
There was gambling and ti spare. In
children, Mr. G, P. Clark of Portland,
re-. "ho returned to his home last week.
after vUltlng his parents, being unable to
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fact, the gambler and the alooa men
were about the only fellows who did make
any real money out of the rush. "Big
limit" faro bank with a limit of $200 on
the turn of a card was dealt and "the
roof was the only limit on the roulett.
Many a landseeker picked the wrong color
or the tvrong number and had to wire
home. Some wired home again and again
for caan with which to feed the tiger,
Men who bore all earmarks of straight,
respectable cltlsena at home went all to
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Queer souvenirs were taken home by the
landseeker from Dallas. Little bottle of
Tripp county dirt sold for a dime. A
bunch of alfalfa was sold for a t-cent
piece by one enterprising Rosebud woman
who drew a claim four years ago. An
other sold bunch of wild grass off Tripp
county for a nlckle. One woman wrote a"1
song about "My Rosebud Claim" and It sold
freely for a dime. To advertise It a quar
tet of negroes sang the long through the
saloons and then sold oople of the song
Immediately afterward. Postcards show
ing views of Dallas and Tripp county sold
well. Maps of the county, marked $1 on
the outside, sold well at 60 cents, 25 cents
and a dime. Indian relic attracted the
crowds. A dally newspaper was operated
t Dallas curing me rusn ana it soia wen
as a souvenir. Dally papers from other
points sold short time subscriptions In pr-
der that landseekers might get compleiV.
lists of the drawings.
Rosebud women adopted novel methods
of making pin money. One woman oon-
ducted a wash-up stand, where you could
wuh your face for a dime and wipe It on
a clean towel. Another sold hot doughnuts.
church women Bold hot waffles, and one
church sold a cot for a night for CO cents.
One larse tent waa erected over 1.000
cots that were seldom occupied because
the railroad took passenger out so
rapidly. The officials of the one affidavit
pont pti,,,,,, th(S raIroad to leave the
crowds In town over night so that they
could spend some of their money.
The drawing was fair. So thoroughly
were the envelopes mixed that applications
came out Indiscriminately and without re
gard to the day of registration, the place
or the matter of whether they had been
mailed Into the headquarters or merely de.
posited personally into the big metal tanks.
Judge Witten's chief desire was to be ab-
solutely fair, and those who closely ob
served the lottery agreed that he had been
absolutely so. Only two Incidents changed
original plans for ' the drawing. Little
Doma 'Rose almost cried when Judge Wit
ten wanted to blindfold her before the first
envelope was drawn out, so he allowed
her to select the envelope unbllndfolded.
Wind blew down the big lottery tent the
first day and the drawing continued Inside
the registration building at Dalla. Every
person drawing a claim will be notified by
mall.
G. W. Clark
remain for their wedding anniversary, and
Mrs. Herbert Hutchings of Chicago, who
Is at present the gueet of her parents,
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